Hosted by John Mikton and Dan Taylor. Every two weeks we discuss all aspects of technology and life in International Schools.
Episodes
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Craig shares the journey of creating the EduSpark Professional Learning Platform, why this platform, the vision and juggling multiple projects focused on professional learning and then launching EduSpark. What does professional learning look like for schools and educators in the next few years, has COVID reframed our understanding of virtual professional development.
About Craig Kemp
As a well known and respected keynote speaker, workshop host, and global Education Consultant, Craig is a leader in the field of ICT and EdTech and works with Departments, Ministries, School Leadership, School Communities and Educators to understand, design, and implement digital learning solutions and transformations to improve teaching practice and student learning outcomes.
Craig has supported schools and organisations all over the globe to establish practices, protocols and guidelines to support the sustainable implementation of technology into the curriculum to add value to student learning. In addition, he works as an advisor with technology vendors adding value to their products for use in schools. Craig works with these companies to help them build, develop, grow and connect with schools all over the world and has successfully supported global EdTech companies in developing a presence in APAC.
Craig is a New Zealand born educator with over 15 years experience both in the classroom, in leadership and in consulting. He is an enthusiastic change agent that is passionate about every aspect of education and making a difference. Craig is currently based in Singapore.
Craig is well known for his dedication to education through Social Media, with over 45,000 followers on Twitter. Craig is the founder of new professional learning platform EduSpark that is shaking up the professional learning landscape for schools globally.
Craig Kemp on Social Media
- https://eduspark.world/
- igniteedtech.com (Company Website)
- twitter.com/mrkempnz (Twitter)
- twitter.com/EduSparkWorld (Twitter)
- facebook.com/mrkempnz (Facebook)
- facebook.com/EduSpark.World/ (Facebook)
- linkedin.com/company/edusparkworld/ (LinkedIn)
- instagram.com/eduspark.world/ (instagram)
Resources:
One Free All Access Month to EduSpark - register here: https://bit.ly/1monthES
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
My wife recently gave me a copy of ‘The Millionaire Expat’ by Andrew Hallam. I loved the book and connected with Andrew on Linkedin. He agreed to chat on the podcast, and here we are. (This is an excellent testament to LinkedIn as a networking tool!)
We learn all about achieving financial independence, work-life balance, and much more.
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
Would you like to have a free 1 month trial of the new Google Workspace Plus (formerly G Suite Enterprise for Education)? Just fill out this form and we’ll get you set up bit.ly/GSEFE-Trial
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Join the conversation with Philippa as she talks about her new book The Digital Ecosystem ( How to create a sustainable digital strategy for your school). Philippa shares her insights and expertise on her books areas of focus from digital governance, safeguarding, developing a digital pedagogy, and how the changing world, current pandemic, and lessons learned from schools around the world can guide a digital ecosystem development and implementation to build your own digital vision.
About Philippa Wraithmell
Philippa Wraithmell has been an educator for 12 years, working in the UK and the UAE. For the last 5 years she has specialised in Digital Strategy and Innovation in schools, supporting educators globally to develop sustainable Digital Ecosystems.
Philippa is passionate about supporting educators to ensure that they are using the right systems for their schools.
Philippa Wraithmell on Social Media
Blog: www.designedtoteachdigitally.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrsWraithmell
Resource(s):
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
Would you like to have a free 1 month trial of the new Google Workspace Plus (formerly G Suite Enterprise for Education)? Just fill out this form and we’ll get you set up bit.ly/GSEFE-Trial
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Katherine will share about KnowledgeWorks’ efforts to spark new thinking about ways to prepare students for an uncertain future -- and what that future might hold. Katherine will describe KnowledgeWorks, speak to the organization’s future-oriented research into various focus areas tied to education, and describe some of the patterns of change and learnings she and her team have been seeing over the last several years generating forecasts on the future of learning.
About Katherine Prince
One of the United States’ foremost educational futurists, Katherine leads KnowledgeWorks’ exploration of the future of learning. In addition to setting the strategy for the organization’s strategic foresight work, she speaks and writes about the trends shaping education over the next decade and helps education stakeholders strategize about how to become active agents of change in shaping the future.
Since 2007, Katherine has worked with education stakeholders across the United States and beyond to apply insights from KnowledgeWorks’ forecasts on the future of learning to their own contexts. She designs and facilitates generative conversations that help participants explore future possibilities and identify their priorities for responding to the changing landscape. Katherine also helps people keep their eyes on the horizon and explore emerging issues by leading the development of comprehensive ten-year forecasts, deep dives into specific topics, strategy guides and experiential futures resources and by writing articles and blog posts about the future of learning.
Since joining KnowledgeWorks in 2006, Katherine has also led organizational development initiatives, contributed to national collaborations informed by the fields of systems thinking and organizational change and managed programs to foster teaching and professional learning innovations and to encourage collaborative knowledge management among educators.
Earlier in her career, Katherine supported large-scale changes in working practice at Britain’s Open University by introducing an online portal and an online student feedback system for 7,500 tutors distributed across the United Kingdom. Prior to that, she managed customer satisfaction improvement projects and established a technical communications group at Pacific Consulting Group in California. In that capacity, she helped federal agencies and other clients increase service quality by incorporating a customer perspective into their organizational planning.
Katherine holds a bachelor’s in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, a master’s in English from the University of Iowa and an MBA from The Open University with emphasis on creativity, innovation and change and on knowledge management. She also earned a certificate in Foresight from the University of Houston and pursued training in foresight from the Institute for the Future. Katherine is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Katherine Prince on Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katprince, https://twitter.com/knowledgeworks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineprince/
Website: https://knowledgeworks.org/
Resources:
https://knowledgeworks.org/strategic%20foresight/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/education-futures-studies-foresight/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/forecast-5/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/education-balance-tensions-educations-futures/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/navigating-future-learning-strategy-guide/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/futures-thinking-education-programs/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/futures-thinking-now-drivers-change-futures-triangle/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/we-need-human-centered-learning-systems/
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
Would you like to have a free 1 month trial of the new Google Workspace Plus (formerly G Suite Enterprise for Education)? Just fill out this form and we’ll get you set up bit.ly/GSEFE-Trial
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Dan chats to Denry about the business side of international schools…. How do the 80% or international schools that are ‘for profit’ operate and what accounts for the massive growth in the sector. This was a fascinating discussion about a topic that many teachers have not heard about
Dr Denry Machin on Social Media
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/denrymachin/
Medium: https://denrymachin.medium.com/
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
Would you like to have a free 1 month trial of the new Google Workspace Plus (formerly G Suite Enterprise for Education)? Just fill out this form and we’ll get you set up bit.ly/GSEFE-Trial